{"id":278850,"date":"2019-06-13T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=eff212e2d868fe57b3eff38d0a4ad452"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:10","slug":"kengen-won-a-sh5-2-billion-geothermal-drilling-and-survey-contract-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278850","title":{"rendered":"KenGen won a Sh5.2 billion geothermal drilling and survey contract in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Business Daily reported that Kenya Electricity Generating Company, or KenGen, had won a new tender worth about Sh5.2 billion to drill geothermal wells and carry out geo-scientific surveys in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"KenGen won a Sh5.2 billion geothermal drilling and survey contract in Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The Kenyan state utility\u2019s Ethiopia work sat inside a wider East African push to expand geothermal power beyond Kenya\u2019s Rift Valley fields, and the tender notice marked another cross-border energy contract for KenGen in the Horn.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy archive, the Business Daily report dates KenGen\u2019s mid-2019 geothermal contract win in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/companies\/KenGen-Sh5-2bn-geothermal-tender-in-Ethiopia\/4003102-5156492-10sdh2pz\/index.html\">Business Daily Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KenGen bags new Sh5.2bn geothermal tender in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Business DailyKenGen has been hired to drill wells and offer geo-scientific survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1axA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755214,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278850\/revisions\/755214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}